For raw packets obviously not, but if: - you're sending big byte arrays over json/xml - you cannot switch to a more efficient medium - (but you can make your

For raw packets obviously not, but if: - you're sending big byte arrays over json/xml - you cannot switch to a more efficient medium - (but you can make your remote counterpart adopt a different encoding) - and you still need to maximize your throughput then I guess you might consider base85 for utf-8 or base32k for utf-16?